Stories, essays, and reflections by and about people whose life stories demand to be told.
“Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.” -Wicked
1 November 5, 1990
Shit gets real digital on ketamine.
A Year with the Criminally Insane
Prologue The door closed. Not with a click or the sound of tumblers finally hitting their marks or the sturdy clunk of wood and metal…
by Justina Batchelor, with a note from The Girls of Atomic City author Denise Kiernan
An excerpt from Sam Harris’s new book, Ham: Slices of a Life.
Let me enter the URL of something I write in my own space, and have it appear here as a first class citizen.
Shortly after I got the editor-in-chief job at The New York Observer in 2011, I had drinks with Peter Kaplan, the longest running editor of…
The network of links between characters in the medieval “Sagas of Icelanders” is indistinguishable from real social networks, say computer…
Don’t. Just don’t. Don’t be a dick who goes around chasing money.
by asking the right questions now
Called it.
A Founder’s First Steps
Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar
When do the thunderbolts start?
by Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Every book I have ever written has meant a lot to me, but with my latest book The Runaway Wife, something really special happened when the…
By Will Swift
An excerpt from Katy Butler’s new memoir and exposé of modern medicine that asks: How we can make end-of-life care less invasive and more…
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